This door is the official gate of the Imperial Palace. There is a person who can only walk once in his life and never get out.

When it comes to the doors of the Imperial Palace, I believe few people can explain clearly how many doors there are in the whole Imperial Palace, but there is one door that we are no stranger to. It is the Meridian Gate, the official gate of the Imperial Palace that you have to go through as long as you visit the Imperial Palace. What else do we know about this gate besides "beheading the Meridian Gate"? The funny thing is that what we all know has never happened at Meridian Gate, and little is known about what really happened.

There is such a person, she can walk through the middle doorway of this gate once in her life, which seems to be a great honor, but it is actually the beginning of a tragedy. Approaching the Meridian Gate, there seemed to be only three doorways from the front, but in fact there were two left and right doors on the front, which opened on the inside of the east and west city platforms, one facing west and the other facing east. The two doorways extend eastward and westward into the platform, then turn north, and go out from the north of the platform. Therefore, from the back of the Meridian Gate, there are five doorways, so there are "three bright and dark five". In the middle of this road that only the emperor can get in and out, the person who can walk once in a lifetime is the queen (only once in a lifetime). When the emperor got married, the queen was carried through this door, and from then on, it was impossible for the queen to enter here again.

It seems like a great honor for a woman to enter the Forbidden City from the main entrance of the palace and the path taken by the emperor, but in fact it is the beginning of her tragic life. Throughout the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which queen who entered through the main entrance ended well? Take the last queen who entered through the Meridian Gate. She is Longyu, the queen of Emperor Guang Xu. I believe many people know about her tragic life. She is not very beautiful, and her character is soft and cowardly. As an empress, she is neither spoiled nor liked by the Empress Dowager Cixi. She usually does not have much prestige when she meets the princesses of various life wives. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, in her view, she single-handedly ended the Qing Dynasty and was unhappy all day long. He was only 46 years old when he died in Changchun Palace.

Standing in front of the Meridian Gate, I don't know how you will feel. There are too many stories about the main entrance of this palace. We know so little about it that when we walk through it, we only see its height and majesty, and we know nothing about it.